Do You Have An Idea? It May Be Worth $500!

All you backyard inventors - do you have an idea? It may be worth $500!

Hear me out, Design News is looking for new Gadget Freaks and it’s worth $500. If you have a creative invention you think should be seen on the pages of Design News or on Designnews.com, we want to hear about it! E-mail our Executive Editor Liz Taurasi at Elizabeth.taurasi@reedbusiness.com and tell her your ideas. Once accepted you’ll work with another one of our Gadget Gurus to turn your project into a noteworthy item for Design News. Hurry! Slots are filling up for the remainder of 2007. Good luck to you all - the Gadgeteer.

If you have any questions, just post to me here on the blog, I'll do whatever I can to help my fellow Gadget Freaks.

Eleven years ago one of those rare, brilliant moments emerged from the crack staff of Design News: Let’s put the tinkerers among our audience community to work in designing and building some truly wacky devices. And Gadget Freak was born.

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